Re: Persistent flag in memory

Op 2/11/10 4:37 AM, Teus Benschop schreef: > Good day, > > May I ask you, gurus, whether it is possible to set a flag in PHP that > persists for the duration of the server being switched on? > > If the server would be power cycled, the flag would be off. Similarly if > the web server would be restarted the flag would be off also. > > I do realize that such a thing would be possible to be done in MySQL by > using a table with flags in memory: CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS timer > (flag int) ENGINE = MEMORY; > > But is this also possible in PHP? take a look at memcache, or APC in terms of memory storage, although it might be possible to have the web server setup a $_ENV value (I do this myself sometimes with the mod_rewrite extension of apache). as such php is a 'share nothing' architecture - so essentially there is no concept of server level global/persisent vars. if your coming from .NET or Java et al this may be a little shocking but it is by design, it requires a somewhat different approach (possibly) to application design. > > Thanks for any help, > > Teus Benschop > >